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BPOV

Edward returned to me a good hour after I waved him off. Apparently Charlie wanted to apologize to him as well. I was still recovering from before. I still can't believe that Charlie reacted like that. He wouldn't even let me explain for myself. Anyway, as a treat, well more like as a please-don't-hate-me-forever gift, I was allowed to sleep at the Cullen's tonight. Result! Edward had packed my things for staying overnight so I wouldn't have to go back again. Alice saw this coming and told me as soon as her vision ended.

"It's going to be our first pregnant sleepover!"

"Yay," I said back sarcastically, "How fun."

"Oh come on Bella, don't be a spoilsport!" Alice tugged me to the lounge to tell everyone the 'good' news.

"Great." Rosalie said equally sarcastically. "Now we can be pregnant together, all night long!" Alice deflated at the sight of everyone's lack of enthusiasm.

"Why is everyone so sarcastic today?" Alice moaned flopping down next to me and Rose on the sofa. "This is meant to be fun."

"If you want to know why I'm like this I will gladly tell you. Firstly, I have to spend the first night of the holidays led on a camp bed pretending to sleep. Secondly, I have a bloody stupid thing on my stomach that makes me look enormous. Thirdly, I have already been called 'Fatty' and I haven't even left the house yet." Rose shot a ferocious look at Emmett who was sat in the corner of the room playing with a rubix cube.

"Oh come off it Rose, you know it was only a joke." He hollered across the room. I smirked at the thought.

"If I wasn't pregnant right now, Emmett Cullen, I swear that I would come over there and kick your ass." Rosalie shouted back. Someone got out of the wrong side of bed today!

"Okay, okay. We get the picture. You don't like being pregnant but don't shout. It's not good for the baby." Alice shielded her bump from the noise.

"OH FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THINGS HOLY!" Rose stood up and stormed across the room. "Alice, it isn't even real! It's strapped onto your back for heavens sake! I can't do this for another week. I'm going to talk to Carlisle."

"DON'T SHOUT AT ME! Just because you can't stand the heat!" Alice threw back, full of venom. I shrank back into my seat. I'd never seen the Cullen's fight before, well, seriously anyway. But play fighting was a little different to this.

"Alice," Emmett slowly crossed the room and sat on the floor in front of me and Alice, "Don't be too hard on her. You have no idea how difficult this is for her, she's wanted a child all her life and this is the closest she's ever going to get." All traces of humor were gone from his face. "She's finding this hard. She's not so good at this pregnant thing and it's killing her inside. That's why she keeps lashing out. I can handle it, I mean I love her, but if you think she's being a little harsh just let her take it out on you. Maybe you could even give her tips on how to handle it all. I don't know, I'm a guy, I don't know anything about this sort of stuff. You could go to some pregnancy classes or even just read some of those books together. She's just trying to look all tough but inside she's really upset." Alice nodded her head as if she understood perfectly. I had no idea that Emmett loved her that much. Well, they had been together for decades so I knew they did love each other but they rarely showed it like this. Sure they showed their love for each other at night when they thought no one would hear them. This was so sweet, Emmett no longer looked so big and stupid. I felt all warm inside.

The front door opened slowly and Edward walked in. I ran over and threw my arms around his neck and hugged him tightly. He squeezed me back. "This is a lovely welcome, love. What have I done to deserve this?" He held me at arms length and checked for any signs of illness. "Do you feel okay?"

"She's gone all weird. It's like pregnancy changes them into crazy emotional wrecks. Happy one minute then crying the next. I can't keep up." Emmett scratched his head in confusion. Well, sensitive Emmett was nice while he lasted but now it was back to playing the fool. He looked at me as if to tell me that that conversation before was for our ears only. I understood and nodded back. Emmett winked at me and turned to Edward, "It's insane."

"I think I'm going to go and get Jasper. Anybody seen him?" Alice paused at the foot of the stairs.

"He's upstairs playing on his X-Box." Emmett pointed, engrossed in his rubix cube once again.

"Thanks!" Alice called down.

After about a minute or so Carlisle came downstairs with a smug looking Rosalie by his side. Jasper and Alice followed close behind him. Rose whispered something in Carlisle's ear but he just batted her away like an annoying fly.

"Sorry everyone but I promised Rosalie that I would have a talk with you all. She won't leave me alone until I do." He shooed Rose away from his side and waited until she was sat next to me and Edward on the sofa. "It has been brought to my attention by a rather persistent member of this family that this experiment is a rather long one. I realize now that it was unfair of me to ask you to give up your whole holidays for me so I propose to shorten the time from fourteen days to only eight days. All those in favour say 'I'."

"I"

"I"

"I"

"I"

Rosalie started, followed by Emmett, then me and finally Edward. Alice stopped Jasper from speaking by glaring at him. But despite her efforts, the majority was against her.

"That settles it then. You will have four days of being pregnant and four days of looking after your babies. Sorry Alice, majority rules." Carlisle spread his hands in a helpless way. Alice sighed and smiled again.

"Never mind. At least we have eight days left of motherhood." I could tell she was trying to be positive but she wasn't really happy.

"Eight days? What about today? Surely that counts as a day?" Rosalie pouted at Carlisle.

"No it doesn't. It's only been about five hours. Eight days starting tomorrow, no questions." He answered definatly. "Can I go back to my study now?" He looked at us for approval. We all nodded bar from Rosalie who looked like she wanted to discuss this further. "Thank you. Good night everyone. And remember you have to keep your empathy bellies on all night. That includes the early morning as well, so you can't bend the rules that way."

When that was all done, I made my excuses and went up to bed. I led in bed talking to Edward for at least an hour and a half before I drifted off. The last thing on my mind was how difficult this next week would be for all of us and for some unknown reason what Edward would look like dressed up as a pumpkin. I know, my logic is messed up.

Thanks to all the comments I've got so far. I love reading them! Hope you like the chapter and will update soon. Also any ideas for what the Cullen's and Bella could do tomorrow will be gladly accepted. XX